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Thursday, December 18, 2008

buying stocks on borrowed money

When purchasing stocks you don't always have to bet everything you have on them. There are other ways to buy stocks. A few ways to borrow and invest in the stock market are like taking out a loan, using home equity, buying on margin or purchasing a leveraged exchange traded fund. Doing things such as this to buy stocks means that you dont have to risk everything you own. This year the stock market has dropped a total of 40%. While it might be a good time to buy some stocks there is always a chance that it will contuine to drop. Sometimes that 40% loss cause turn into 80%.


When people take money that they dont't actually have to buy things with it causes problems and debt. If they make money of that stock they can easily pay it back but if it drops, you are loosing more money then you orignally invested. If that happens when people have taken out loans then they have to find a way to pay back the borrwed money and could go into debt.

i got this article from cnn.com

Disney

Walt Disney Co have been holding up this year in the stock market, and better then any of the their competors. But now Wall Street is saying the their stocks are becoming too expensive for how the economey is right now. Nathanson from wall street rates Disney shares "market-perform" with a price target of $22 -- 7% below the pr ice at the time his report was published. Disney stock rose 4.4% to $23.78 on the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, in line with the broader market. It has traded within a 52-week range of $35.02 and $18.60.

With all the jobs being cut and people not having as much money to spend on wants they are cutting back. Sure parents would love to take there kids to Disney Land, but the truth is how many of them can afford it? And now that their stock prices are raising less people are aslo buying their stocks and there money is going down all around.

i got this article from http://uk.reuters.com

Monday, December 15, 2008

Google

Google latley has introduced a lot of new upgrades. Google made it easy to get into a PDF file. Usually to open a file it has to open in a new window and takes a very long time to load. Instead of having to open all that stuff and wait such a long time it allows you to hit the “View” link next to it. Just click this link and the PDF opens inside the browser. This makes it so you dont have to download all the files it will just open ins the same browser and you can decide if you want to save it or not.


With Google coming out with all these new upgrades people should be using it a lot more. Since everyone these days is into fast and easy accesible products

Thursday, December 4, 2008

stocks dip after two day rally

Stocks dropped thursday after majior companies cut a lot of jobs. The stocks were up and down all morning, untill the finally just dropped. Will Hepburn said that the stocks are trying to stabalize and that the problem will be short term. In the two pervious sessions the stocks had gained despite the "weak economy."

Im not really sure that it will jump back up to what it once was. Since there are tons of jobs being cut people don't have money to purchase stocks. On the other had there are people who decided to buy when the ecomony is low because the stocks are cheaper and will eventually go back up.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Hiccups!!!!

A man in Louisville Kentucky will be celebrating a very usually anniversary at the end of November. Milton Betts has had the hiccupf for nearly a year now! He said that he has tried almost everything to get them to stop. Betts stated "I've lost about 35, 40 pounds." "I'm off of work right now because when I go to work, I lose my breath. I have had a couple episodes at work when they sent me home because I couldn't breathe." After the hiccups wouldnt go away after a couple days he decided to go to the doctors to see if he could get on any medication to fix the non-stop hiccups.

Yea pretty sure this is crazy! Sometimes i think the hiccups can be fun, but like after 10 minutes im ready for them to go away. I don't understand how the guy could cope with these for nearly a whole year. Its kinda good that he lost some weight, im sure he can't really complain about that.

i got my article from UPI.com

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Chineese food industry

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/11/11/yoon.china.fast.food.wars.cnn

McDonalds is a 66 billion dollar industry in china. the profits went up 25% from last year. A way that china connects to their coustmers is that they sell local foods. Sure their Mcdonalds will have a burger and such, but they will also have things that the chineese people would like to eat. In example they sell cups of corn. Even though China is very high in the fast food industry for having very high sale rates there are other chineese companies who want to sell their food in other countries. They plan to go public within just two years. Some of their resturants might even make their way to America.

It would be nice for other resturants to come into America. Mcdonals are everywhere and its kinda annoying. There are already Chineese resturants here but this one might be different. Also chineese food is very very yummy!

Friday, November 7, 2008

unemployment

In the past 14 years the unempoment rate has been the higest ever. The U.S. economy shed 240,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate jumped sharply to 6.5 percent. having to deal with all this uneployment is one of the majior problems Barack will be facing when hemeets with his economic advisers. More than 10 million people are now jobless, actively seeking work but unable to find it, a number that has spiked by 2.8 million over the past year. Manufacturing lost 90,000 jobs, part of a steady decline in U.S. factory employment, while construction shed 49,000 jobs. The retail sector lost 38,000 jobs, with high gas prices, stagnant wages and general concern about the economy leading consumers to scale back spending. Professional and business service companies dropped 45,000 positions.
I think a lot of unemployment is happening becuase everything is becoming more expeniseve and a lot of jobs can now be ran by computers or machines and people are not needed anymore. And people not being able to find jobs has to do with the computers and machines. It is the reason that people are loosing jobs and the reason that they can not find them as easy anymore.

Friday, October 31, 2008

busted

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=102888&provider=top0

32 year old Eloy Ignacio Garrido was arrested for being busted of a marijuana operation. This guy was busted for having over 1,307 plants. With having this many plants Eloy entended to sell. Majority of the plants were being sent to california. The system he used to grow the plants is called a hydroponic system. they are easy to use inside. and with hydroponice the plants will grow up to 30 percent faster. he was arrested on wednesday with a bail out of 50,000 dollars.

This guy is totally crazy fro growing this much marijuana. He had to know the he would eventually get caught with about 47 pounds of it. I would like to know how he did get caught.